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Prices Fuel Outrage In Brazil, Home Of The $30 Cheese Pizza
The New York Times ^ | July 23, 2013l | Simon Romero

Posted on 07/23/2013 9:08:25 AM PDT by Biggirl

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Shoppers here with a notion of what items cost abroad need to brace themselves when buying a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone: the same model that costs $615 in the United States is nearly double that in Brazil. An even bigger shock awaits parents needing a crib: the cheapest one at Tok & Stok costs over $440, more than six times the price of a similarly made item at Ikea in the United States.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brazil; cheesepizza; shoppers
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To: SeminoleCounty

Not really. It’s more like a combination of a high VAT and tariffs that hit imports at 100% of assessed value, even for components used fr manufacture in Brazil. While it is true that salaries are low relative to the cost of housing in the bigger cities, even Classes D and E are still buying goods on installment “interest free.” Between high tariffs, taxes, a real estate bubble and inflation (hidden and unhidden) you have a large consumer economy where the growth in disposable income, while significant , is masked by the high cost of goods.


21 posted on 07/23/2013 11:15:16 AM PDT by Clemenza ("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
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To: Mr. K

The currency was being held artificially low against the dollar for several years, and the Central Bank has been slowltly bowing to the inevitable as of late. As far as au pairs are concerned, local labor costs have gone up and affluent Brazilians would rather pay extra for an English-speaking nanny than take their chances locally.


22 posted on 07/23/2013 11:19:25 AM PDT by Clemenza ("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
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To: NativeSon

Yes, the Clemenza Importing Company of Miami International Airport. ;) Thankfully, they tend to check women more than men when you arrive at GRU with your luggage.


23 posted on 07/23/2013 11:33:09 AM PDT by Clemenza ("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
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To: Red Badger

Shipping to and from Brazil is prohibitively expensive with either FedEx or UPS. I tried to send some video games about two years ago to my wife’s cousin in Sao Paulo (when I was still stateside) and UPS would have charged me over $200.


24 posted on 07/23/2013 11:38:17 AM PDT by Clemenza ("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
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To: Clemenza

When you gonna bring me back one ?


25 posted on 07/23/2013 12:04:51 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Mr. K

You can finance your trip there if you and your wife and children all take your IPAD’s with you and sell them when you get there
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My friends bike shop (high end) sells at least 10 bikes a week to Brazilians .. there is a 100% import duty so a $2000 Specialized here is at least $4000 there ... bikes are bulky but lightweight and the extra charges from the airlines are minimal.


26 posted on 07/23/2013 1:25:12 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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To: Red Badger

Amazon will NOT deliver to Brazil or Argentina...

FOr one thing, the delivery guys CANNOT leave packages at the door.... they don’t *stay* there! :-)


27 posted on 07/24/2013 5:57:19 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in governm<p>ent. If any were, business would hire them f)
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